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Royal Anguilla Police Force Loses Another Officer
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The Royal Anguilla Police Force has lost another member: Sergeant Eric Ambrose Saunders, 40. He died on Sunday, November 12 at the HIMA San Pablo Caguas Hospital in Puerto Rico, where he was referred for specialist treatment.
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Senior Cop, Local Calypsonian Dies...Lord Anything
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The senior cop has been ailing for sometime but his indomitable courage and will helped to keep him on his feet and on the job until his conditioned worsened and he eventually succumbed.
Sergeant Saunders was a jovial person who earned the stage name “Lord Anything” as a well-loved local calypsonian whose social commentary both amused and enlightened his admirers.
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The late Sergeant Eric Saunders
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“It has been for us an education dealing with one so brilliant, one so unassuming, correct and yet so non-judgmental as this man who the country should mourn in perpetuity,” wrote Jerry Dice Richardson, President of JeLeCour Productions which managed this year’s Calypso Competition. “His greatness as a calypsonian par excellence is well known by those of us who love classic calypso/social commentary music the world over.”
Saunders is survived by his wife Gertrude, two children Shakiem and Rashaad; his mother Beulah Saunders, two brothers and four sisters including Ameythyst Saunders, a sister who is a police officer. His body was expected to arrive in Anguilla on Wednesday evening.
He is the second police officer in Anguilla to have died while in service. The first was Constable Gerald Bardouille who died in April this year when the police jeep in which he was travelling collided with the Court House building just outside Police Headquarters.
The Anguillian offers its condolences to the relatives and friends of the late Sergeant Eric Saunders.